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Publisher's description: Are your students interested in how to understand and manage the daily dynamics of the classroom environment? Do you want to offer your students practical, concrete, realistic, field-tested action ideas to use in their own classrooms? Does your course cover cooperative learning, faculty collaboration, school restructuring, and educational reform? If so, look to Group Processes in the Classroom, Eighth Edition. For 30 years...

Many aspects of medieval society are alien to the twentieth-century observer, such as the hierarchy of ranks and the division of authority into the secular and the religious. Yet medieval history is full of personalities who attract and interest us and Christopher Brooke portrays them in the context of their society. Keeping generalization to a minimum, the author concentrates on particular topics -- the court, the papacy, the law, the town and the...

Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right to determine the meaning of their shared group identity, and that such a right is especially important for historically oppressed groups. The author specifies this right by way of a modified discourse ethic, demonstrating that it can provide the foundation for a conception of identity politics that avoids many of its usual pitfalls....

This video features excerpts from lectures delivered in a 1965 seminar by the late Dr. Erich Lindemann, a pioneer in community psychiatry who surveyed the developing field of social psychiatry. The video focuses on studies of groups and group processes. It contains material of historical importance that has remained relevant to the mental health field.

Physical injury is often a part of playing sport, but it can also take a psychological toll on players.When does tough coaching cross a line from encouragement to verbal and emotional abuse?When student athletes come forward with allegations of abuse from coaches, how seriously are their complaints taken by those in power?

Unlike most of the animal kingdom, we humans cooperate outside of the family unit. This episode looks at how we behave in groups and puts our notions of hierarchy to the test. We meet a group of workers from a small company that come to the country house for what they believe is a team-building weekend. Not one of them was prepared for the news they received once they arrive. Dr. Michael Mosley and guest experts Dr. Nadine Tchelebi and Patricia Marks...

A guide to mastering "Roberts Rules of Order" breaks down the various rules and procedures of the popular and long-lived manual for running meetings, electing officers, and setting up committees.

Guide to protection, rescue, and recovery from destructive cults.

Barry Schwartz studies the link between economics and psychology, offering startling insights into modern life. Collaborating with Ken Sharpe, Schwartz has also made a study of wisdom. In this TEDTalk, Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote to a society gone haywire with bureaucracy. He argues that while rules often fail us and incentives often backfire, practical, everyday intelligence can help rebuild our world.

Thom Knoles and Eitan Yardeni describe the differences between illusory happiness and real happiness. They highlight the negative effects of unhappiness and the necessity of altruism.